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The perennial Mozilla Firefox has hit version 50. Launched back in 2002, Firefox has faced a lot of tough competition over the years, first from Internet Explorer and then from Chrome, but it continues to be a popular browser with a faithful user...

Miami-based smartphone manufacturer BLU has confirmed that around 120,000 of its phones were affected by a security breach. The issue - caused by a 3rd party application which had been collecting unauthorized personal data - has been fixed, the...

Seagate has announced a new drive for data hoarders, the Backup Plus 5TB drive, the highest capacity drive of its kind. The new drive is the first drive from Seagate to feature the BarraCuda 5TB drive that use Seagate's new 2.5-inch 1TB...

If you are a Microsoft fan in the US, and are planning to purchase either the Surface Pro 4 or the Surface Book, you'll be glad to know that the Redmond, Washington-based company is offering discounts on both devices.
For a limited time, both...

If you recall, WhatsApp announced earlier this year that it will be ending support for several mobile platforms - including the BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 - by the end of the year. Well, looks like there has been a slight change in that...

Among the world’s most popular instant messaging platforms, Facebook Messenger has received an update that will allow the messenger compatibility with Android’s Auto platform with a quick-glance UI that allows for safer operation of your smartphone...

You have to assume that by far the most requested feature for WhatsApp has to have been video calling. The Facebook-owned service wasn't the first to add voice calls to its app, and it definitely isn't the first to do video calls. But now, after...

Google Translate is ten years old, now supporting 103 languages. Yet with the new feature that Google is announcing today, Translate is apparently improving more in a single leap than in the last ten years combined.
It's called Neural Machine...

A new Meizu phone, carrying the model designation M686G, has passed China Compulsory Certification (3C). While there's currently no official information on the device in question, reports say it's the rumored Meizu Pro 6 Plus.
The Pro 6 Plus...

Out of the many hardware products Google unveiled at its huge October event, the imaginatively named Google Wifi mesh router was the only one not even up for pre-order before today. Well, that's no longer the case, as you can now pre-order the...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, which is said to be launching sometime Q1 next year, has been spotted on Zauba, a website that tracks India's import and export.
While the listing doesn't reveal any of the tablet's key specifications, it does reveal a...

We've known for quite a while that T-Mobile would eventually start selling the Samsung Gear S3 frontier, and today the magenta carrier has thankfully given us some more details on the matter. T-Mobile will commence sales of the Gear S3 frontier on...

A report comes from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from KGI Securities who believes the iPhone 7’s demand has already reached its peak and is now on the decline, just two months after Apple’s release. Kuo predicts that Apple’s suppliers make adjustments to...

Today, OnePlus announced the 3T, an updated version of the OnePlus 3 with a larger battery, more storage, an updated CPU, and higher-resolution selfie-camera. However, there was no concrete information as to what the launch of this new phone would...

Verizon will start selling the new, Blue Coral color variant of Samsung's Galaxy S7 edge smartphone this week. This was revealed by a Verizon rep who said that the model will be available starting Thursday, or November 17.
In case you aren't...

Research firm Strategy Analytics released the third quarter results of the earning results for US wireless carriers. Fierce Wireless made it easier for us to follow what went on this quarter by breaking down the results.
The data does not include...

Today Google is launching a new app for both Android and iOS. It's called PhotoScan by Google Photos and it pretty much does what its name implies - it lets you 'scan' old, printed photos. The app digitizes them and uploads them to Google Photos...

After a week-long teaser campaign and many prior leaks and rumors about it, the OnePlus 3T has finally been made official by the Chinese company today. It looks exactly like the OnePlus 3 (having the same dimensions even), but there's a new color...

After years of requests from users, Twitter has finally added keyword muting. This functionality won't be new to anyone using third party Twitter clients, such as TweetDeck or Tweetbot, but should prove useful to the millions of users who use the...

As planned, the Gionee S9 was made official today in China. Hard to call flagship-grade, the phablet packs some interesting hardware nonetheless.
The specsheet starts with a 5.5-inch FullHD display and goes on to include a Mediatek P10 chipset -...